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One by one   /wən baɪ wən/   Listen
One by one

adverb
1.
In single file.  Synonyms: one after another, one at a time.
2.
One piece at a time.  Synonym: by the piece.
3.
Apart from others.  Synonyms: individually, on an individual basis, separately, severally, singly.  "The fine points are treated singly"






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"One by one" Quotes from Famous Books



... and warriors went out, one by one. Then runners were sent to all the villages, ordering the chiefs ...
— Myths and Legends of the Great Plains • Unknown

... Americans made their assault, and carried the outworks one by one. Then the castle of Chapultepec was stormed. First the outer works were scaled, which made them much more desirable, and the moat was removed by means of a stomach-pump and blotting-pad, and then the escarpment was ...
— Comic History of the United States • Bill Nye

... gold, ponderous, yet which the mountain whirlwinds are able to lift and drive in wreaths and pillars, hiding the paths with a burial cloud, fatal at once with wintry chill, and weight of golden ashes. So the wanderers in the labyrinth fall, one by one, and are buried there:—yet, over the drifted graves, those who are spared climb to the last, through coil on coil of the path;—for at the end of it they see the king of the valley, sitting on his throne: and beside him (but it is only a false vision), spectra of creatures like themselves, ...
— The Ethics of the Dust • John Ruskin

... now. The barrel was tapped so that the glint of gold flowed through the corridors, into committee rooms, and to out of the way corners where legislators fought for their honor against an attack that never ceased. Sometimes the corruption was bold. More often it was insidious. To see how one by one men hitherto honest surrendered to bribery was ...
— The Vision Spendid • William MacLeod Raine

... its own special activities, the private kitchen makes no advance. Advance comes to it from outside; from the wider and more progressive professionalism of its various industries; specialized and socialized one by one. But, left to itself, domestic cook hands down to domestic cook the recipes of female ancestors, occasionally added to by obliging friends. It is endless ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman


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